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With a little less than a week to go in November, temperatures across the region have been three to six degrees below normal across a wide swath of the region. Florida is the only state that has experienced temperatures above normal. Precipitation has varied much more, with rainfall along the Georgia running several inches above…
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Yahoo Finance News posted an interesting story about the problems that peach farmers in Greece are having due to fluctuating weather. Heavy rains have caused some peach skins to split, reducing value and introducing rot. High temperatures have also increased disease and rot problems. Other farmers have also seen increased problems in the past few…
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Rain this weekend will cause problems for those going to football games and other outdoor activities this weekend, but dry conditions should return to most of the region by Monday. Alabama and the mountains may see some additional rain later in the week as the next weather system approaches the area. The driest areas will…
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies) at the University of Colorado-Boulder posted an interesting story earlier this week about how changes in climate, specifically a megadrought, may have contributed to the collapse of the Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC. Assyria was one of the most powerful empires on earth and was…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued their latest monthly and seasonal outlooks for December 2019 and beyond earlier this week. They show a continuation of the trend towards warmer than normal temperatures both for December and for the December through February period. That does not mean that we won’t see cold outbreaks during the winter, just…
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The latest ENSO update from NOAA shows that there is no El Niño or La Niña occurring in the Eastern Pacific Ocean at present. Temperatures there are fairly close to the 1981-2010 average. Neutral conditions are likely to continue for the next few months, so short-term climate variations will come from other variations like the…
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This week’s Drought Monitor showed continued improvements in drought conditions across most of the Southeast this week, not a surprise considering the rainy conditions we have seen on and off this past week. Every state saw some improvement, and only a few small areas of worsening conditions were seen, mostly in north central Alabama and…
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